About Us
The Dissertation Writing Network is an educational firm founded by university professors and administrators who have recruited, taught, supervised, coached, and managed doctoral dissertations for many years. It combined this experience with a team of curriculum experts, video animators, infographics specialists, and consultants to create a novel learner-focused, teaching and learning curriculum that doctoral students in all disciplines can use to write a dissertation and graduate.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help enhance doctoral programs’ graduation and retention rates in all disciplines by providing customized, skills-based training programs that integrate seamlessly with the university’s core doctoral curriculum.
Our Values
We recognize that a doctoral dissertation is one of the most unique and challenging projects in all academia. As such, we value the students’ right to successfully write their doctoral dissertations and earn the doctorate within a short period! In support, we use our time-tested dissertation writing strategies, following very strict ethical standards. What matters most to us is that all students can use this curriculum to ease the barrier to finishing the doctorate.
Meet the Dissertation Writing Network
Founder and Creative Strategist:
“I have recruited, taught, and advised doctoral students for many years. Although they were all intelligent and highly motivated, it did not take me long to realize that while being smart and motivated are essential traits, those alone won’t get them the Doctorate. I have seen them succeed and fail…and when they fail, it is always related to writing the doctoral dissertation”,
– Dr. Hilroy Thomas.
Dr. Hilroy Thomas is the Founder and Chief Strategist of WriteDis and the Dissertation Writing Network. He is also Professor Emeritus at St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida where, as an early adopter, he designed and led unique digital learning programs at all degree levels (including the doctorate) for many years. Later, his interaction with doctoral students made him realize that astronomically high attrition among this group crossed all boundaries—including big and small, and private and public universities.
However, the original story connecting Dr. Thomas to dissertation writing started when he coached other graduate students on writing doctoral dissertations while completing his doctorate in the School of Education at Harvard University. During that period, he worked with students from many disciplines, focusing primarily on data collection, analysis, and the reporting sections of their doctoral dissertations. Later, as he worked with international organizations worldwide, he continued to meet and help doctoral students working on their dissertations.
While researching graduation patterns of his doctoral students, Dr. Thomas discovered that creating a type of learning environment that pro-actively supports the dissertation writing process could significantly increase their graduation rates and time to completion. Hence, the Dissertation Writing Network and WrteDis are the result of his creative designs which started years ago at Harvard!
His research on time to completion led to a sustainable understanding of “what to get right” — the elements of writing a successful doctoral dissertation.
Today, WriteDis and the Dissertation Writing Network are focused on the explicit needs of doctoral students — enhanced and value-added dissertation writing experiences, higher completion rates, and efficiencies that reduce their time to completion and associated costs. Dr. Thomas continues to champion the “how to get it right”—and is at the forefront of getting doctoral students across the finish line with their doctorates completed!
Meet the Dissertation Writing Network
The Dissertation Writing Network (DWN) is a higher education company offering a unique and robust trend-setting, higher education training program featuring on-demand, immersive, and cohort-based learning to enhance doctoral dissertation writing performance. Our mission is to help enhance doctoral programs’ graduation and retention rates in all disciplines by providing customized, skills-based training programs that integrate seamlessly with the university’s core doctoral curriculum. Our solutions feature an innovative curriculum in video format, using character and object animations, and animated text, to facilitate a complex learning process (that is, writing a doctoral dissertation).
Our flexible, cost-effective license terms allow the University administrators and professors to own, re-brand, revise, customize, facilitate, and manage the learning process for their doctoral students, whenever and wherever.
The curriculum expedites and simplifies the writing and management of the doctoral dissertation, increases retention and graduation rates, and shortens students’ “time to completion” for the degree. It is flexible, student-centered, easy to implement, and streamlines and automates the role of Program Directors, Dissertation Chairs, Readers, and others in supervising and managing dissertations.
Anyone with specific interests and oversight in the dissertation writing process will benefit from the ease and clarity of the curriculum.
The Dissertation Writing Network also supports faculty resources and training for managing and delivering the curriculum.
We simplify the dissertation writing process to confidently put students on the path to earning their doctorate and graduating on schedule!
Facts on Completion Rates of a Doctorate
Did you know that most doctoral students do not finish their programs, and the biggest obstacle is writing a doctoral dissertation?
Furthermore, many who finish will take a very long time, sometimes up to ten years. Many doctoral students sadly walk away instead of writing the dissertation. And here are the facts on the attrition and completion rates for the doctorate!
- Most experts agree that the dissertation is the biggest obstacle to earning that doctoral degree.
- About 50% of the US students who start a doctoral program never finish.
- Dissertation writing is one of the most challenging activities any individual may ever face in his or her lifetime.
- Even the most talented doctoral students are often under-prepared for the challenges of writing their dissertations.
- For most doctoral students, completing the academic coursework is easy; the dissertation is not!
- Although they have the academic ability to succeed, of those who graduate, less than 25% of doctoral students finish the doctorate in 5 years; 45% finish in 7.
- Overall, attrition in U.S. doctoral degree programs is more than 50%.
- Attrition is highest in the humanities, with only 12% complete within five years.
- Within 10 years, the completion rate for engineering is 64%, life sciences (63%), social sciences (56%), math and physical sciences (55%), and humanities, (49%).
The Info-G Curriculum removes the mystery of writing a doctoral dissertation and helps students with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING related to writing a successful doctoral dissertation!